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<blockquote data-quote="Worf" data-source="post: 48135" data-attributes="member: 1047"><p>It's always hard, because the pin's sole purpose in life is to suck quarters. So TPA already starts at a disadvantage because the game designers built it to make money first, fun second (because if a player has too much ball time, the operator loses money).</p><p></p><p>Pinball FX, Zen, etc - they don't have to worry about quarters, so the whole table is designed for fun. Make the slingshots bounce balls away from the outlanes? Sure, of course, but on a real table, having them bounce into outlanes is part of the goal (something which separates the skilled from the amateurs who don't know how to nudge properly).</p><p></p><p>It's hard - at best, they can have a slider between "Non-realistic, but fun" and "Just like the real table". But it's hard since it's a per-table thing and involves changing ever-so-slightly things like posts and what-not. </p><p></p><p>And then they have to send the table through approvals (Williams/Stern/Universal/etc), which takes forever.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Worf, post: 48135, member: 1047"] It's always hard, because the pin's sole purpose in life is to suck quarters. So TPA already starts at a disadvantage because the game designers built it to make money first, fun second (because if a player has too much ball time, the operator loses money). Pinball FX, Zen, etc - they don't have to worry about quarters, so the whole table is designed for fun. Make the slingshots bounce balls away from the outlanes? Sure, of course, but on a real table, having them bounce into outlanes is part of the goal (something which separates the skilled from the amateurs who don't know how to nudge properly). It's hard - at best, they can have a slider between "Non-realistic, but fun" and "Just like the real table". But it's hard since it's a per-table thing and involves changing ever-so-slightly things like posts and what-not. And then they have to send the table through approvals (Williams/Stern/Universal/etc), which takes forever. [/QUOTE]
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